I finally got a digital camera. Now which is the official VL program to transfer pictures from the camera to the computer? So far I found that only gthumb does the job for me. I do not have gimp installed.

Pita, have you tried Gtkam?I'm assuming your camera is new, so you will want to get the latest libgphoto2, gphoto2, and Gtkam from the testing repo. Tons of cameras (sometimes several hundred) are added with each release. So you definitely want the latest.Gtkam comes in 5.9 Standard by default, but may be too outdated for your camera. The name slips me, but there is a KDE "kam" program that uses the gphoto2 libs as well.

I am using ghtumb. Connect the camera to a USB port open gthumb and transfer the pictures. Works great, no hazzle, finds my camera, a sony cyper-shot, a gift, even my great-grandmother could do it. Forgot there were no computers yet around her time.